Herennius Senecio
Herennius Senecio (d. 93 AD) was among the
Roman Spain.[3] He was the author of a laudatory biography of the Stoic martyr Helvidius Priscus
.
In 93 AD, Herennius and Pliny successfully prosecuted a case against Baebius Massa for improprieties during his administration in Baetica. Baebius's property was confiscated in order to make reparations to the provincials. Baebius retaliated by bringing a charge of treason (maiestas) against Herennius, accusing him of impietas, but dropped the case when Pliny threatened a counter suit.[4]
Thrasea Paetus, had given Herennius her late husband's notebooks (commentarii); for this she was also prosecuted by Carus and condemned to exile. Another member of this circle who fell victim to Domitian was Arulenus Rusticus.[5]
References
- ^ Gunnar Haaland, "Josephus and the Philosophers of Rome: Does Contra Apionem Mirror Domitian's Crushing of the 'Stoic Opposition'?" in Josephus and Jewish History in Flavian Rome and Beyond (Brill, 2005), p. 298; B. Walker, The Annals of Tacitus: A Study in the Writing of History (University of Manchester Press, 1952, reprinted 1968), p. 199.
- ^ Tacitus, Agricola 2.1; Pliny, Epistulae 3.11.3; Michael B. Trapp, Philosophy in the Roman Empire: Ethics, Politics and Society (Ashgate, 2007), p. 228 online.
- ^ Haaland, Josephus and the Philosophers of Rome, p. 305.
- ^ Pliny, Epistulae 7.33.
- ^ Haaland, Josephus and the Philosophers of Rome, p. 305; Steven H. Rutledge, Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian (Routledge, 2001), pp. 130–132.